单词 | anspessade |
释义 | anspessaden. Military History. An experienced, usually long-serving, soldier, esp. in the French or another continental European army. Cf. earlier lancepesade n. b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > officer of other specific ranks > specifically in foreign armies turcopolier1481 marshal?a1560 sergeant-general of battle1685 anspessade1697 regimentary1731 sub-commandant1798 sotnik1799 bimbashi1819 toxarch1828 Junker1843 Standartenführer1933 Reichsführer1935 Sturmbannführer1955 1697 P. Hollingworth tr. C. F. Franckenstein Hist. Intrigues & Gallantries Queen of Sweden 237 A Valet of one of the Queen's Anspessades [Fr. le valet d'un Anspessade de la Reine], had cheated a Banker of some Barrels of Brandy. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Anspessades, a kind of Inferior Officers in the French Foot, below the Corporals. 1758 H. S. Conway Mil. Arguments 11 144 Corporals, 144 Anspessades, 1728 Grenad. and 48 Drummers. 1800 S. T. Coleridge in tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein ii. iii. 38 (note) Anspessade..a soldier inferior to a corporal, but above the sentinels. 1843 New Mirror 6 Jan. 218/2 ‘The anspessades had completely forgotten me.’ ‘The anspessade was capable of that in the time of Marlborough,’ said Napoleon, smiling. 1892 H. L. Williams tr. A. Dumas Son of Porthos xxviii. 267 ‘Soldier’, said Joel abruptly, ‘who posted you here?’ ‘The anspessade officer.’ 1920 tr. J. Boulenger 17th Cent. viii. 216 Above the private soldiers there were the anspessade or soldier of the first class, the corporal or caporal, and the sergeant. 2001 D. Parrott Richelieu's Army i. 41 It was the anspessades and appointés who held a formation together, and it was these and any additional vieux soldats who executed fire and pike drills with reasonable precision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1697 |
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